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Brookes’ de facto replacement. “I called him up just as their boiler had broken. He checked if our heating worked and came straight over,” Tim recalls.

“There was a delay in getting theirs repaired so the next time he brought Gillian [wife and New Order keyboard player] with him.

“The broken boiler meant we got half of New Order on our record.”

Alongside collaborations with the “amazingly generous” Weller and Marr – “like a gunslinger who rides into town, does his thing and rides off into the sunset” – Different Days includes spoken word contributions from Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner and bestselling Rebus author Ian Rankin. ‘We insist on moving forwards,” nods Tim. “I think the songs reflect that. Standing still is not an option.”